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Public Policy 2024 @_janiceli
Taken at Baylands Nature Preserve during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a student and a community member.
2019
Photograph
This work converts content into physical form. Charlie Chan, played by white actors in yellowface, investigates murders. But who is he really hurting?
2017
Ink and print on wood
I sought to express the conflicting emotions-guilt as well as pleasure-associating with eating cake.
2016
Ink Resist on Paper
An ode to a few of many meaningful moments shared with friends over a cafe drink – Coffee at Peet’s, Chai by Meyer Green, and Matcha over Zoom.
2024
Gouache on Paper
A sketched self-portrait replaced into its photographic context.
2020
Graphite on Paper, Photograph
A study of a tree for Drawing I in charcoal, exploring silhouettes and shading.
2018
Charcoal on Paper
These two paintings were inspired by the feelings of quarantine—isolation, restlessness, and nostalgia.
gouache (two images combined digitally)
This piece looks into the intersection of queerness and religion in the age of the internet and digital upbringing.
Link to Website
2022
Interactive Digital Work
Quad is always changing amazingly.
Photo
A Joshua Tree, with its grotesque appearance, instantly demands attention.
Photograph of Landscape
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. This piece intends to instill a sense of curious serenity.
Digital Visual Art
An exploration of nature’s healing power as an avenue for escapism and introspection.
Ballpoint and pencil on paper
The emotional turmoil of Fall quarter. As students process their new reality, they long for human connection but also feel empty and purposeless.
2021
Photography
Series of 22 photographs reimagining tarot cards (Rider-Waite deck Major Arcana), to reflect the diversity and complexity of the contemporary world.
Digital Photographs
These metallic flowers portray our future if we continue to condone industrial heavy metal pollution. Each flower is one of my original designs.
Original origami flowers on red and silver foil paper; Arranged with silk leaves
These monotype prints are based on historical photos of imperial palaces in Beijing, my hometown.
monotype on paper
The security blanket is a metaphor for something we cling to when we are afraid and how it is something we must learn to let it go.
Submersion is a painting that experiments with figure in distortion, and blends the organic elements of nature with human form.
2015
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
I spent 26 days backpacking through Death Valley. When water is scarce, life harder yet more simple, what matters most becomes evident.
song / soundscape
This print came from a colored pencil drawing I made for a friend. I thought it’d be sweet to make a sort of postcard from it.
Four color Riso print